 Genius Meanings
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SYML – TRUE
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[Verse 1] / I can’t believe it’s over / I was there they said “forever” / It’s getting harder to pretend / It’s good to know that it’s on-trend / Take the weight up off their
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. SYML) – Paris, Texas
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“Paris, Texas” is the tenth song by Lana Del Rey featuring “SYML” from her ninth studio album and eighth major-label studio album “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean
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SYML – The Bird
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Trying to love or even understand someone with all of their beautiful flaws and intricacies, while we cope with our own, is not easy. It is as delicate and cold as it is proud and
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SYML – Girl
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“Girl” is for my daughter Josephine. She’s two years old, she just turned two, but within the last year we found out she was diagnosed with a disorder that caused her skull to
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SYML – Better
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[Verse 1] / You came into the picture like a natural / You were unexpected, got me spiritual / I don't wanna say it, but maybe it was fate / And I can not contain it / [Chorus
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SYML – Wildfire
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I wrote this song when all I could see was smoke and falling ash outside of my studio. It struck me that in these seasons of destruction and loss, someone might need to hear that
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SYML – Body
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[Verse 1] / In my body, I have a master / I bow down when she comes around / In my body I'm a disaster / I break down when you shake the ground / Every time I stand to leave my
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SYML – Break Free
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[Verse 1] / Body perfection like a punch in the face / Why don't you sit down closer to me? / I'm talking sex, religion, politics, and stereotypes / You know I could make you weak
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SYML – Connor
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[Verse 1] / She broke today / Her perfect little heart in my hand, she came undone / I hesitate / I'm waiting on my father to say, "I love you, son" / [Chorus] / It's coming in
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SYML – Meant to Stay Hid
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I wasn’t built for this my head can’t make any damn sense of this so it sings / Can’t remember the smell and I can’t recall the taste but I try everyday / If I wasn’t so afraid / I
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SYML – Marion
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[Verse 1] / Drunk and looking for a friend / Who understands? / You understand / Sweatin' like a cardigan / When we collided / Oh-oh-oh / [Chorus] / I stumble, but I won't chase
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SYML – Sweet Home
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When I wrote Sweet Home, I was feeling nostalgic. What’s interesting is that it was a pretty generic sort of nostalgia. As I spent more time with the song, and what the video might
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SYML – Where's My Love
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“Where’s My Love” is the first song Brian Fennel wrote for SYML:
I wrote it on a stereotypical Seattle day. It was very rainy and I didn’t necessarily feel lonely, but I realised
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SYML – Bed
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“Bed” is an intimate song. It’s about the words we tell each other when we’re alone as partners. Sometimes those words can be veiled in love or fear or infatuation, but intimacy
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SYML – All of Us
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[Instrumental]
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SYML – BLACK TEETH
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[Verse 1] / I'm chipping at my black teeth / And nobody can stop me / I have lost my need for them / I went to bed starving / She hit without a warning / I wrecked it on the rocks
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George FitzGerald & SYML – Mother
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[Verse 1] / I took a pill to review everything I've been missin' / The colours and the sounds are all different / I took a pill but it felt more like takin' a moment / Paper in the
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SYML (Ft. Slumberville) – ancient call
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[Chorus] / Some ancient call that I've answered before / It lives in my walls and it's under the floor / If this was meant for me, why does it hurt so much? / [Instrumental Break
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SYML – I Wanted to Leave
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[Instrumental]
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SYML – The Walker
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[Verse 1] / When your heart rips out your chest / When your voice is trembling / Lift your head to the blood red moon / Hold your pain as you breathe / [Verse 2] / Time is short
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SYML – STAY CLOSE
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[Verse 1] / I know mourning is mourning and we heal differently / Right now it's all I see / In my brokenness, I found some peace / This mourning wakes my memories / When I got it
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SYML – Flags
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I struggle with things that seem supernatural but are actually very natural. Cancer is natural. Nature is undiscerning and unforgiving. Cancer is raw and shapes the landscape of
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SYML – Fear of the Water
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[Verse 1] / Some ancient call, that I've answered before / It lives in my walls, and it's under the floor / If this was meant for me, why does it hurt so much? / And if you're not
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SYML – Sentimental
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[Instrumental]
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SYML – Clean Eyes
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“Clean Eyes” is a song written by SYML for his wife, Marion Fennell, who “sees the world through beautifully clean eyes.”
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SYML – Hurt for Me
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Hurt for Me is the eponymous first track from SYML’s debut EP, Hurt For Me, released September 9, 2016.
The song focuses on the effects of a past relationship of the narrator (
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SYML – Mr. Sandman
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“Mr. Sandman” is a modernized version of “Mr. Sandman” by The Chordettes. Although the main melody and lyrics have been kept mostly original, a piano instrumental with electronic
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SYML – The War
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[Verse 1] / Here stands a man / At the bottom of a hole he's made / Still sweating from the rush / His body tense / His hands, they shake / Oh this, this is a mad boy / [Verse 2
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SYML (Ft. Lucius) – Howling
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[Verse 1] / Woke up on your skin / I've never felt like this before / Woke up trembling / I feel electric underwater / [Pre-Chorus] / Lay me down low / Lay me down low / I'm coming
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SYML – Feel Your Pain
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[Verse 1] / Lost with no lighthouse / Pitch black and carried far away / Weathered and washed-out / And you're afraid / Heaven won't call down / Cursed with the blood that you can'
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SYML – The Day My Father Died
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[Intro] / Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh / [Verse 1] / I was born on the day my father died / He loved me so / Heaven's bells on the day he closed his eyes
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SYML – DIM
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[Verse 1] / I lay next to myself, breathing slow / Car crash in rewind / "There's nothing you could have done", said a soft voice / "Calm down, you will survive" / Leave me out of
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SYML – WDWGILY
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“I wanted to write a song that made me uncomfortable. What makes me comfortable is a pop song structure with sweet lyrics. Taking those away allowed me to write a mournful mantra
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SYML – Baby Don't Lie
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[Verse 1] / Been daydreaming, head in a hole / Been so busy rushing for gold / I never wanted anything more than everything / You dress classic, before your time / You love tragic
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SYML (Ft. Jenn Champion) – Leave Like That
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[Verse 1: Jenn Champion] / You never got the chance to know me / Packed it up and crossed the state / You left behind more than memories / Now when I sleep I'm only dreaming of
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SYML – Tragic Magic
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[Verse 1] / Magic man / I don't wanna let you down / You've been like a father / Since you came around / Half-baked boys / Sweating in the summer sun / Hits you like a shiver / [
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SYML – Rising Upside Down
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[Verse 1] / Hard to define / In some foreign dream / I taste alkaline, nothing there to see / And my old friend, he knows what I'll find / Buried underneath, it happens all the
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SYML – Symmetry
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[Verse 1] / Come now child, the day is long / Hide not yourself from me / Angels sing the final song / Silence will turn to sleep / [Chorus] / Take heed my son / The darkness will
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SYML (Ft. Charlotte Lawrence) – You and I
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[Verse 1: SYML] / I wanna feel something / I wanna feel something / I drink to feel to something / I sleep and feel nothing / Maybe that's where you come in / Maybe that's where
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SYML – Take Me Apart
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[Verse 1] / Look at the desperate man / Clutching with broken hands / Wondering how it ends / Stumbling back and forth / Looking to start a war / I'm lucky he was a friend / [
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SYML – Breathtaker
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[Instrumental]
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SYML – Believer
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[Verse 1] / Hold the call, hold the call / Good love makes you hesitate / Rolling slow, go so slow / Melting like a long last drink / I wouldn't change one thing / [Chorus] / Touch
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SYML – Corduroy
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[Verse 1] / When the violet hour is heavy on your eyes / When the wine runs out and all we have is time / Out of all the broken tongues you hear tonight / I hope I say it right / [
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